toallia

Latin

Alternative forms

toacula, tuala, toalia, tuella, *toaillia

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *thwahllja, *thwahillja (“towel, washcloth”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /to.aˈil.li.a/, [tɔ.aˈɪl.li.a]

Noun

toallia f (genitive toalliae); first declension[3]

(Medieval Latin) towel, washcloth

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	toallia	toalliae
Genitive	toalliae	toalliārum
Dative	toalliae	toalliīs
Accusative	toalliam	toalliās
Ablative	toalliā	toalliīs
Vocative	toallia	toalliae

Descendants

Franco-Provençal: tiuaille (Old Lyonnais), tueillie (Old Savoyard)
Old French: toaille, tuaille, touaille, tuaile, touaile, towelle
- Franc-Comtois: tiuaille, tiueille, tuâye, kyẅeyu
- Middle French: touaille, toaille, touelle, tuaille
  - French: touaille
- Picard: touaîye (Athois), duelle
- → Middle English: towell, towayle, towaile, towelle
  - English: towel
  - → Irish: tuáille
Iberian:
- Asturian: toballa, toalla
- Old Portuguese: toalla
  - Galician: toalla
  - Portuguese: toalha
- Old Spanish: tobaja
  - Spanish: toalla
Italian: tovaglia
Old Occitan: toalha
- Catalan: tovalla, toalla
- Occitan:
  - Auvergnat: toiglia
  - Gascon: tabalhe
  - Provençal: toalha
  - Rouergat: tougaillo
Sardinian: tiàgia (Mesanìa), tialla (Campidanese), tiaza (Logudorese, Nuorese)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *toallola
- Old Catalan: toallola, tavallola, taueylola, teuellola
  - Catalan: tovallola
- French: tavaïolle
- Italian: tovagliola
- Sicilian: tuvagghia

References

Greimas, A.J. (1969), “toaille”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 629: “*thwahlja, serviette”
Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “tovaglia”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati: “*thwahlja”
Blaise, Albert (1975), “tuella”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (in Latin, French), Turnhout: Brepols

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